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Exposing capitalism’s exploitative nature: The life and writings of B. Traven

April 2, 2019 By Jenny Farrell

Traven is one of the most widely read working-class writers of the 20th century.

San Francisco Art Institute hosts Hollywood Blacklist festival and panel

March 28, 2019 By Special to People’s World

Starting in 1947, the FBI and U.S. government persecuted artists and activists, driving many into exile during the Hollywood Blacklist/McCarthyism Cold War era.

‘Sobibor’ dramatizes a successful heroic revolt in a Nazi death camp

March 28, 2019 By Eric A. Gordon

In 2018, resistance fighters around the world commemorated the 75th anniversary of the famous Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.

Liam O’Flaherty’s ‘Hollywood Cemetery’: Long censored exposé makes a comeback

March 21, 2019 By Jenny Farrell

For readers of People’s World, a special aspect: O'Flaherty puts the Daily Worker (called Proletarian Power in the novel), at its moral center.

Butcher’s dozen: The crimes of Bloody Sunday 47 years on

March 20, 2019 By Jenny Farrell

Disbelief is the reaction of most in Ireland to the decision to charge only one British Paratrooper with the murder of 14 civil rights marchers.